The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-09-03
HERE AND THERE.

for him q school at Oconce.
Many of the large hotels In New York now
use potatoes imported from Germany instead
of using Bermudas. The advantage Is In
price rather than In quality
An cnterprising maiden is the Cohoes, NJ
Y, girl who eloped recently, leaving two
husbands to mourn her loss Her name less
than year ago was Miss Annie Conway.
A horse galopcd through the streets OF
Hopknsvllc, KY, during recent Storm
when a bolt of lightning struck his heels,
tearing of both shoes, which went lying
through the air like blazing Goals
Three Eastern factories which were running
on goods for baby clothes have been obliged
to suspend operations for the want Of orders
Are they making bark shirts for Western ba'
bes, or ia this the year to cut over dads OLD
clothesi
A court in Wisconsin has again decided that
a woman cannot secure damages from
strange man who wlnks at her in the postoi1ce
corridor. Her remedy is to jab him In the
eye with her parasol, Or pet her husband to
| lick him,
The highest mountain in the world is Monnl
Hercules and not Mount Everest oil the
Himalayan range as is generally supposed.
Mount Everest is 10000 feet high, but Mount
Hercules scars to the tremendous altitude OF
32, 1856 feet.
A Brooklyn physician has been inycstgat'
ing cats and dogs, and he finds just as many
cranlks and fools among them as among the
human race He says that every fourth cat is
H. ft,tb lie n
| of fanatic.
One of the American claims against Mexico,
put In seventeen years ago and still unsettled,
is for 500, 900 for slap on the mouth which
Mexican gave Boston man. The mouth
will probably be dumb in death before tho
claim is reached.
The palaces of China and Japan are now IL
Illuminated by the same electric lights IS are
used in America, and very likely the same
June.bugs have the same way OF collecting
around to get chance TO crawl down behind
somebody's collar.
Lost River, CAL was so named because
miner who was cooking dinner on its banks
lost his beans and pork by the overturning OF
the kettle. When you come to take romance
and sift 1t right down to bedrock it's no beY-
erage for hot day.
Boston school-board officials have posted no.
| tices in all the school buildings Of that city
iorbiddlng the chewing of tobacco by the
pupils. They have even posted the notice In
the girls high-school building, much to the
indignation of the young women.
A Baptist society at Los Angeles, CAL,
| bought lot few months ago for $4,000 In
tending to build. site for government
building was selected close by, and few
days ago they sold out for 100000 and VIII
puy another lot and build Immediately.
The "lnfernal machines" received by In
spector Byrnes Capt Williams, and the Brit
sh consul at New York Friday were fuel
cartridges manufactured in Troy. The
cartridges are filed with mineral cotton, and
are perfectly harmless. They were sent as O
joke
In the Philadelphia railroad committee of
councils, Tuesday, John Wanamaker's bid oil
S25O,oOO cash and $4,000 per mile for the
privilege Of erecting an elevated railroad was
beaten by an offer OF President Boxer, OF the
Northeastern Railroad company, to pay a
bonus of $500, 600 and $1,000 per mile In lieu
of his former proposition to pay per cent. OF
the,gross receipts.
Some experienced educators think that
good many teachers in the public schools
make mistake in not urging the scholars 10
talk more-the laconc reply of 'yes" or mo-
ON the part of a scholar not being conducive
to the process of thinking Questions should
be nut in such a manner by the teacher that
the pupil will be bound to use one or more
sentences, thus exercising the mind more ana
acquiring better knowledge OF the conslruc'
ton of the English language.
The following is probably about the best nc
of the present season: guinea hen at
Sumter, Ca, was very anxious to sit but her
owner was determined that she should not,
and three times broke up biddy's nest The
last time the poor fowl looked on sorrowfullJ
and saw her maternal hopes bllghted, turned
with n drooping head, walked up to the well,
few I'D on the curbing, and then plunged
head foremost into the deep waters below
When they got her ont she was dead.
An admirable practice is thus described b'
TN, Ne,r YORK World. "The Iron Gross guild
are soliciting subscrip lions to give Saturday
afternoon excursions TO good working boys
Two tickets week are to be sent to employ
ers with the request that they be handed t.
the most deserving boys. Special contract
art to be made with trains and steamers, ant
each boy will be provided with substantial
luncheon in q paper bag. ANY boy bringing
certificate of good character from his employe
may apply to guild for ticket These OK
cursIons are to be limited to boys who wor
for living. A chaplain will accompany cacl
, party"
Here is a composition Of an Indian pupil a
, the Hampton school: zone day, bright day
! and little bird happy and stood ON log an